Russian Director Karen Shakhnazarov Keeps It Surreal in These Absurdist Films
Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov’s Soviet-era In the Moscow Slums and Zerograd are surreal, absurdist films rich in Impressionistic color.
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Film Posters in the Revolutionary Age of Soviet Cinema
Constructivism’s influence in Soviet-era film posters favored cubist-like aesthetics that turned to electrifying colors, shapes, and lines drawn not by laws of perspective but by rulers and compasses.
The Best Classic Films on Blu-ray in 2020
Many formats have come and gone and streaming competes, to a degree, but these best classic films offered on Blu-ray in 2020 prove irresistible.
Pudovkin Makes the Revolution Human: The Bolshevik Trilogy
Inspired by D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance, Vsevolod Pudovkin would leave his chemistry studies for film to the betterment of Soviet cinema.
Dziga Vertov’s ‘The Man With the Movie Camera’ Remains a Fascinating Documentary
Dziga Vertov believed that the camera could function as an extension of the human eye, and could see and record a truth that the ordinary eye would miss.
‘Leviathan’ Is a Kafkaesque Nightmare in Russia
Combine Orson Welles’ The Trial with Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, throw in some nods to Job and Thomas Hobbes, and you get Leviathan Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan.